Road Race
Round 11: Assen, Holland
WORLD SUPERBIKE CHAMPIONSHIP
By Go rdon Ritchie
Photos by Gold & Goose
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ASSEi'J, HOLLAND, SEPT. 5
hey came in droves to see Carl Fogarty win , and the y were not disappointed. An estimated 30,000 British fans, ma ny of whom looked to be on the
track and in the p it lane a t the end of the second World Superbi ke race,
, formed the majo rity of Asse n's 55,000 race-day turnout. Predictably, they
wen t ballis tic after watc hing their hero simp ly romp' awa y from his pursuers with
cus hions of four and six seco nds a t the end of each 16-1 race.
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What the British contingen t, or anyo ne else for that ma tter, cou ld n' t have reaso na b ly expected was to see a ll five main races wo n by British riders - lain
MacPherson in World Su perspo rt, Steve Webster in Sidecar and ano ther Car l (or
ra ther Kar l - Harris this time) in Superstock.
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(Top) Akira Yanagawa (4) tries to hold off the likes of Carl Fogarty (1). Troy Corser (11). PierFrancesco Chili (7) and Coli n Edwards II (5) in the firs t leg of the Wor ld Superbike roun d in Assen.
(Above) Carl Fogarty was up to his usual Assen ,t riCkS and he won both races with relative ease.
